On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 13:24:14 UTC, Chris wrote:
I bet you that if D hadn't had GC when it first came out, people would've mentioned manual memory management as a reason not to use GC. I never claimed that D was _propelled_ by GC, but that it was a feature that most users would expect. Not having it would probably have done more harm than having it.
Actually, I am certain that GC is a feature that _nobody_ would expect from a system level language, outside the Go-crowd.
By the way, have you ever designed a language, I'd love to see how it would look like ;)
Most programmers have designed DSL, so yes, obviously. If you are talking about a general purpose language then I wouldn't want to announce it until I was certain I got the basics right, like memory management.
